[BC] Responsibility for the Engineering "MESS"

[Mike Gideon]

I think Rob was talking about messed up facilities, because the operators 
couldn't afford to build them or maintain them
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Alexander" <dynotherm at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:02 PM
Subject: [BC] Responsibility for the Engineering "MESS"


> On 5 Oct 2005 at 15:28, Robert Meuser wrote:
>
>> WE tried that for a little over 70 years.  Guess what, CC, Infinity and 
>> the
>> other groups are still cleaning up the mess left behind. These groups 
>> have put a
>> lot of good money into run down ma and pa operations that were never 
>> better than
>> marginal.
>
> Poor rulemaking and lack of enforcement of existing rules that began when
> Minnow led the FCC into the programming arena may have been SOMEWHAT
> responsible for "the mess left behind."
>
> The change of focus at the NAB, and the non-replacement of Prose Walker
> on his retirement also contributed IMHO.
>
> When irresponsibility is rewarded, it breeds a full crop of the same.
>
>
> Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
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